Invitation to the Waltz
$36.73
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2006
Summary
A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress: these are the gifts Olivia Curtis receives for her seventeenth birthday. She anticipates her first dance, the greatest yet most terrifying event of her restricted social life, with tremulous uncertainty and excitement. For her pretty, charming elder sister Kate, the dance is certain to be a triumph, but what will it be for shy, awkward Olivia?
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844083053 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844083055 |
| Author: | Rosamond Lehmann |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 124mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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No English writer has told of the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly than Rosamond Lehmann– Marghanita Laski
‘A novelist in the grand tradition, and, more than this, an innovator, the first writer to filter her stories through a woman’s feelings and perceptions’ Anita Brookner ‘Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers, of daughters, of suffering’ Margaret Drabble ‘No English writer has told of the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly than Rosamond Lehmann’ Marghanita Laski
About The Author
Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was educated at Girton College, Cambridge and wrote the bestselling DUSTY ANSWER in her twenties. She is one of the most distinguished novelists of the last century and was awarded a CBE in 1982.
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